Does pausing units actually cost less resources?

[Tal'Rarity]

So yeah.. does pausing units actually help processing for big spells that use dummy units?

 

[deathismyfriend]

Yes every unit leaks 4kb so when you have a lot of dummy units being created it gets very close to hitting the memory limit in WC3.

 

[Tal'Rarity]

How does pausing the unit fix that?

 

[mogulkhan1Axe]

Yes every unit leaks 4kb so when you have a lot of dummy units being created it gets very close to hitting the memory limit in WC3.

ok it leaks 4kb but if u kill that dummy / remove it will it remove that leak?

 

[Tal'Rarity]

ok it leaks 4kb but if u kill that dummy / remove it will it remove that leak?

Nope

 

[deathismyfriend]

Pausing and reusing the unit is a lot better as it never leaks.

Take a spell that creates one unit every time it is cast.
Say you use that 100 times in 20 min.
In that 20 min those units are removed. So you lose 400kb of memory.
In that 20 min if you reuse the unit you lose 4kb of memory.
You can see that the more it is caster the worse it gets.